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JOHN HAIGNEY AND FRANK M. HEDMAN, OF EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 82,114, dated September 15, 1868.

IMPROVBD CLOTHES-PIN.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME: V

Be it known that we, JOHN HAIeNnY and FRANK M. HEDMAN, of East Boston, in the county of Su'olir, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement'in Clothes-Line Clamps; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following speccation, and-represented in the accompanying drawings, of whiche Figure 1 is aside view, and

Figure 2 a longitudinal section of one of our improved clamps.

It is composed, in part, of two levers A B, formed and arranged -as represented, and connected bya jointlink, C, which is pivoted to both of such levers. There is a notch, a, in the inner edge of the shorter arm ot' each lever. Furthermore, each of the other arms is recessed or chambered on its inner edge, as shown at 6 and c. A brace or tongue, D, is arranged in one of the chambers, and at one end is hinged'to the arm containing said chamber. 4Besides the brace, there is a spring, E, within the chamber, such spring being for the purpose of preventing the brace from being entirely forced into thechamber.

In the chamber of the opposite lever is a catchfsp'ring, F, which is formed with a recess or receive the free end of the brace. At or near its inner end, the catch-spring is fastened to the lever in which it is placed, the whole being as represented inthe drawings. i

The braceand the catch-spring are for two purposes, viz, a line on which it may be hung, and to enable the two levers t line and article pinched between them.

By turning down'the brace into the position denoted their-shorter arms. After they may have been closede up notch of the catch-spring.

We claim as our invention- The combination and arrangement of the brace vD and the catch-spring F, with the two levers A B, connected together in manner and so as to operate substantially as described.

Also, the arrangement and combination of the auxiliary spring E, with the brace D, the catch-spring E and the two levers A B,.arranged and combined substantially as explained.

' JOHN HAIGNEY,

FRANK M. HEDMAN.

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o accommodate themselves to the thick-ness ofthe by dotted lines, the levers may be opened apart. at

Witnesses:v

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

to lock th'e clamp upon an article of clothing and on an object, the Vbrace should be thrown up into thel 

